ipcm®_Protective Coatings was the media partner of Infracorr 2019, the conference held on May, 28 at Palazzo Turati in Milan and aimed at presenting the best technologies available for the corrosion prevention and protection of bridges and roads as well as the good practices of design, inspection, and maintenance of these structures.
Why organise a conference on the corrosion management of infrastructure?
Because corrosion is an unavoidable natural process which we are confronted every day and that entails huge costs, equal to several percentage points of each nation's GDP, and often-underestimated effects on safety. Inspired by the tragic events of the summer of 2018, when a long stretch of the Morandi Bridge collapsed in Genoa also due to the corrosion of bridge stays, the Infracorr conference aimed at providing answers about the best practices for the design of steel and concrete structures and the management of their corrosion during both construction and maintenance, for the purposes of durability.
Not all failures or collapses are caused by corrosion, but this remains a serious threat and an important factor, because it is a subtle and difficult-to-assess phenomenon. That is why the primary purpose of ipcm_Protective Coatings and of the events it organises is to divulge the latest technologies and innovations for corrosion management.
This issue of ipcm_Protective Coatings testifies our on-going effort to constantly offer accurate information aimed at fighting corrosion in all industrial sectors, and also contains some of the reports presented at the Infracorr conference.